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This is the method that L/XL ships use to travel between sectors. In order to do so, they use their jump drives to jump to a Jump Beacon in a neighbouring sector (i.e. g. a second sector that is connected to the starting sector by a super highway). Therefore if may be necessary for a capital ship to make multiple jumps when travelling from point A to point B within the same system, but in any case it is typically a faster means of travel than for S/M ships flying to and through super highways. Undertaking multiple jumps requires a charge-up period before each one, which cooldown/chargeup period between each jump; having enough jump fuel dramatically speeds up the chargeup period. Capital ship captains have a setting that allows them to automatically make refuelling trips to Cell Recharge stations if they need to make a jump with less than 400 cells. Since jump fuel is relatively cheap, it makes sense to leave this active rather than force the capital ship to make free, but protracted, jumps.

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Travel between systems

This can only currently be achieved via Jump Gates, which require approach and flying through via free-flight (see above). So far, each system has at least 2 gates but some are inactive. Of the inactive ones, some are not in use by the game [yet] and some two connect to the Teladi Fields of Opportunity system ("The Teladi Outpost" downloadable content (DLC)) - a trend that may continue with recent the announcement of a new DLC that is anticipated to arrive with or around the upcoming release of 4.00. Once a gate has been traversed, the ship will find itself within a new zone and from there, may continue on its way via the methods described above.

Note: if given a mission direction to travel to a certain zone within a sector, the easiest way to do so is boost to the highway then engage autopilot. The autopilot will automatically exit at your destination, whether it's at the end of a highway or somewhere in the middle.. but be careful to pay attention, as the autopilot can sometimes instantly re-enter the highway if you've maually set a destination & a prior mission directive takes you elsewhere!

Additional info

For further info on how the game engine treats different locations depending on whether the player is nearby or not, please see this page.